The Margin: Trump reaffirms endorsement of Tuberville in Alabama, and a day-long back-and-forth with Sessions ensues

Even as he was subjected to three years of disparaging remarks by and expressions of disappointment from President Donald Trump, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions held out hope of a Trump endorsement of his bid for a Senate seat from Alabama. He was, after all, the first senator and one of the first sitting members of Congress to endorse Trump’s 2016 presidential candidacy, and the first two congressmen to back Trump, Chris Collins of New York and Duncan Hunter of California, have ended up with prison sentences.

Sessions is even believed to have brought influential adviser Stephen Miller into the Trump fold.

Though he knew, as did even the most casual of political observers, that Trump resented Sessions’s recusing himself from the investigation into Russia’s alleged efforts to sabotage the 2016 election and any coordination with the Trump campaign, paving a path for the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel, Sessions might have hoped when he announced he would seek to be returned to the Senate by Alabama voters this fall that the Trump team would reward his long-standing loyalty.

Then, on Saturday, Sessions reminded the president of his support of Trump’s fledgling political career:

It did not spark nostalgia from the president’s Twitter feed, which observed that Sessions had failed the loyalty test that mattered most to him, going on to take shots at the incumbent in the seat for which Sessions and Tuberville are vying, Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, and the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate:

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